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  • Swazie witch-doctor, smelling out a sorcerer
  • Kachin medicine man
  • A man posing on a pedestal, holding a club (?), in a photographic studio.
  • A man of an Amazonian tribe, holding a spear and wearing a feathered head-dress, in a photographic studio.
  • Bullock's Museum, (Egyptian Hall or London Museum), Piccadilly: the interior. Coloured aquatint, 1810.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Ustensiles en silex des habitants préhistoriques de l'ile de Rugen / Compagnie Liebig.
  • The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Ireland: recreation room. Reproduction of a photograph by C.H.S. after G.M. Roche.
  • Two rows of soldiers, English and Sikh. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Baillie Battery and Hospital: with soldiers parading the grounds. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after C.H. Mecham.
  • A child of an Amazonian Indian tribe, standing on a leopard skin, in a photographic studio.
  • Punan's heads taken by Sea Dayaks
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Ustensiles en silex des habitants préhistoriques de l'ile de Rugen / Compagnie Liebig.
  • A ruler defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Drawing by A.-Ch. Coumeau or Courneau, 1802-1804, after N. Poussin.
  • Manchester Exhibition of Art treasures, Manchester, England: interior gallery. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1856, after B. Sly after E. Salomons.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Drawing by A.-Ch. Coumeau or Courneau, 1802-1804, after N. Poussin.
  • Bombardment of Alexandria, Egypt: taking a wounded man below decks. Wood engraving by K.E.
  • A ruler enthroned defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.
  • Trophy skulls lashed to a pole of the 'Potuma', the club house of the men.
  • The Taboo goblins of Urama Employed by the old men of the clan to keep the village in control, and to guard certain fruits and vegetables for use at festival time.
  • A native North American shaman or medicine man healing a patient. Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after Captain Eastman.
  • Battle in Kabul. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Treating the wounded after a battle. Tinted mezzotint by J.C. Rugendas, 17--, after G.P. Rugendas the elder, 1695.
  • Treating the wounded after a battle. Tinted mezzotint by J.C. Rugendas, 17--, after G.P. Rugendas the elder, 1695.
  • Jeanne d'Arc, at the siege of Paris. Line engraving by J. Roze after H.F.E. Philippoteaux.
  • A Japanese Samurai warrior in his armour. Watercolour.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Etching by A. de Marcenay de Ghuy after N. Poussin.
  • Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Etching by A. de Marcenay de Ghuy after N. Poussin.
  • Battle between Sikhs and English. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Crimean War: ambulance men removing the wounded from the Battle of Sebastopol. Wood engraving.